Trolling spoon



A. REEKERS TROLLING SPOON Filed Dec. 6, 1920 u UH `INVENTOR @mmRLwRamER S BY Q. l. m

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unirse sra-ras ANDREW REEKERS, 0F PORTLAND, 0

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Taormina sroon.

Appllwtion led December 8,4 1920. Serial No. @8,886.-

Oregon, have invented certain new and use-` ful Improvements in Trolling Spoons, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to trolling spoons in general, and particularly to that class thereof'that oscillate in action,the object of my invention bein to provide such a spoon that will oscillate s arply throu h a very small radius of `action and with ittle transverse movement, and that will operatel successfully at veryvslow speed.

When using such spoons heretofore it has been found necessary to'maintain a considerable speed, of enas m'uch as seven miles per hour, in order to insure proper action of the s oon, aiid such speed is very detrimental or the lreason thatit requiresv heavy weights to sink the spoon to a pointwhere it will attract the fish and also that such vspeed carries the spoon too soon through a school of li h. The novel-and ypeculiar con-l struction o; my spoon obviates these dimculties, and the invention lies in the configuration of Lthe s oon.

l accomplish the above objects by means of the construction illustrated in the accompanying drawing, which is a part of this ap# plication for Letters Patent, like characters of'reference indicating like'parts throu hout the several views thereof, and'in whic Fig. 1 is a side elevation of my spoon with hook and'swivel attached thereto.

. hook because of Fig. 2 is a plan view of the spoon.

Fig. 3 a reverse lan view of the spoon.

Fig. 4 a sectio a elevation upon line/1 4 of Fig. 3.

Figs. 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 are sections upon lines 5-5, 6-6, 7 7, 8-8, 9 9, and 10-10 respectively of Figs. 3 and 4.

Fig. 11 villustrates the action of spoons 'heretofore used and Fig. 12 illustrates the.

action of my spoon.

The spoons heretofore used oscillate through alarge arc of curvature or action .18 and -have a large transverse movement between the limiting positions of travel 14, as shown in Fig. 11. This results in many lish striking at the spoon and avoiding the its extreme position at one end of its path of travel atA the time, and lalso results in excessive speed having to be 16 is Vsubstantia maintained to move the spoon through such wide space and still give to the spoon Sullif 1 viastate ciently rapid transverse movement to attract the fish. The action of my spoon is illustrated in F ig. 12, wherein it is seen that the spoon travels a much shorter path than thatl illustrated in Fig. 11, thus maintaining the hook at all times in better position to receive the ish, and also requiring much less speed to cause the spoon to act with suicient ra,-

pidity to attract the sh. My spoon will act at a speed of two miles per hour, and therefore requires much less weight to sink it than spoons heretofore used, and also has the decided advantage oiremaining in the school of fish longer.

rlhe body of my spoon is adat plate15 terminating at its forward end in a curved portion 16. This portion 16 is straight transversely of the spoon as shown in the sections of Figs. 5 and 6, but .is curved lon.- gitudinally to a large radius 17, as shown- 1n Fig. 4. The forward end of this portion ly semicircular in from, and the edges thereof are dished towards the cen ter of curvature of the portion 16 in a pe' `substantially the point whereat said portion 16 joins' the flat portion 15. Thus the entire forward end of the spoon is dished, and the dished portion is carried backward alon the edges of the spoon body on the form of tapering arms 17 which gradually die out as they approach the' portion 15 of thebody of the spoon.

e rearward end of the spoon body 15 is dished. upon that side thereof opposite to the dished portion of the forward end, but instead of this dished portion joining the body portion in a curve as is the case u on the forward end. just described, said dis ed portion upon the rearward end 'cins the two body portion in a line of well de ned con- 4action of the spoon to a short path of travel.

is -a very im- While the dished portion 18 may have any desired form provided the line of juncture between it and the body portion is preservedv in distinct outline, it has been found desir- Iable that said line of juncture be substantially a semicircle as shown at 19 in Figs. 2 and 3, and that in al1 radial sections such as shown in Figs. 9 and 10 the angle 13 between the dished portion 18 and the body portion shall be constant. rllhis latter condition determines that the dished portion 18 shall preferably be a portion of a cone, as illustrated b the broken lines 20 in Figs. 4 and 8, the ody portion 15 intersecting said cone in a plane normal to the axis thereof, as

r shown in Fig. 4c.

The edge of said dished portion 18 is caused to approach the edges of the body portion 15 upon each side thereof until the edge of the dished portion 18 and the edge of the bod portion 15 coincide at points diametrical y opposite upon the line of juncture between said dished portion 18 and said body portion 15, as shown in Figs. 1, 2, 3 and 4i. l

, While the preferred forni of the dished portion 18 is that ofv a fragment of a cone, it is not necessary that such shouldbe the case provided that said dished portion is a surface of revolution generated by the move nient of a right line inclined to the surface of the body portion 15.

My spoon may be made of any size and constructed of any materials deemed convenient and suitable for a device of this character, and while li lhave illustrated and described a forni of construction found desirable in materializing my invention, ll wish to include in this application all mechanical equivalents and substitutes that may fairly be considered to come within the scope and `purview of my invention as defined in the appended claims. Having disclosed my invention so that others may be enabled to construct and to use the same, what l to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. lin a trolling spoon, a dat body portion and a portion composed of a fragment 'a dat portion exten ing from said end claim as new, and desire Lef/naso conical portion.

g2. lin a trolling spoon, a dat body portion and a portion composed of a fragment of a cone, said body portion intersecting said conical portion upon a plane normal to the axis of said cone.V v

3. lln a trolling spoon, a flat body portion and a portion composed of la fragment of a cone, said body portion intersecting said conical portion upon a plane normal to the axis of said cone, and the line of juncture of said portions being distinct and without illits.

4. lin a trollin spoon, a dat bod portion and a dished en portion, said en portion bein the surface of revolutionx generated by vt einovenient of a right line inclined to said body portion. l v

5. In a trolling spoon, a body portion; a rearwardly disposed dished portion, the latter being the surface of revolution generated b thev motion of a right line inclined to sai body portion; a forwardly disposed dished portion; and dished arms extending rearwardly from said latter dished portion alon theedges of said body portion.

@.gln a trolling spoon, a fragment of a cone; a dat body intersecting said cone; a dished portion; and dished arms extending from said dished portion to said body por` tion.

7. llna trolling spoon, a body composed of and a curvedvportion; a fordisposed dished end; dished "arms along each edge of disposed dished wardl said body; and a rearwardly end being a fraent of a cone by said body.

lin witness whereof ll claim the foregoing as my own li hereunto ailix my signature in the presence of two subscribing witnesses at lPortland',county of Multnomah, State of (Oregon, t is 1st day of Nov., 1920.

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Witnesses:

to'. F. Braine., L. all. lttoarnson'.

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